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We’re pleased to announce our first #peacehack of 2018! In partnership with UNDP and the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, we’re returning to the Hague in July to do a 1 day hack entitled “Peace connect: working better together to prevent conflict: Finding data-driven and innovative solutions to jointly and rapidly identify and respond to[...]

#peacehack returns as a key event in the Talking Peace Festival, and this year we’re going to do something a little different. We’re inviting you (as coders, developers, designers or just someone who’d like to get involved) to sign up to our #peacehack and build a bot to send messages of peace. Bots have been[...]

“Hack the Camp” Winners Present their Innovative Solutions to Refugee Challenges. Teams “RefuGR” (Refugees in Greece مهاجرین دریونان), Refergon and Taproot Design present their projects on Thursday, June 1st 2017 at 7:00pm at an invitation-only event for hackathon participants, mentors, press and select guests in Impact Hub Athens. During the five months that followed the[...]

Taproot Members Dimitris Morakis (Industrial Designer) and Voula Germanakou Kopsini (Filmmaker) together with Eirini Gkeli (Industrial Designer) teamed up during the the Hackathon on refugees and Integration Challenges #HackTheCamp, that took place in Impact Hub Athens on December 2016, winning the 3rd prize with our mobile water supply unit (WALY). Our goal was to create[...]

We’re pleased to announce our first #peacehack of 2017. The Conflict Resolution Working Group (part of the School of International Public Affairs) at Columbia University will be holding a #peacehack on March 26th 2017 whose objective is to contribute to the field of conflict resolution and peacebuilding using new technologies/media and data analysis. The #peacehack[...]

On November 25 and 26 at the HiVE, PeaceGeeks and Simon Fraser University (SFU) brought hacking from the tech world into the community, with an event aimed to address pressing issues confronting immigrant and refugee settlement in Greater Vancouver. For anyone familiar with the term ‘hackathon,’ an image of caffeine-fueled programmers huddled intensely around computer[...]

The finalist for the second part of “Hack the Camp” in Athens have been announced We were inundated with great ideas and the selection panel had a hard time selecting the final ideas to go forward. The selected ideas are: Autonomous Water Supply: A portable water supply system, which can provide better hygiene for those[...]

By Chaymae Lougmani, winner of #peacehackLDN 2016 Before I take you through what we did during the Peacehack and why we won it, I want to give you a quick introduction to PeaceHack and give you a bit of context. What is Peacehack Peacehack is an initiative of International Alert that brings technologists, designers,[...]

How can we improve living conditions for refugees? How can the access reliable information on their legal status?What kind of apart unities are available or can be created for refugees? How can we tap on the many skills that moving populations bring with them? How can populations in transit and local populations come closer and[...]

Hate Speech Blocker is a new browser plugin that tackles the complex problem of online hate speech without blurring the line between freedom of speech and censorship. Call it a spellchecker, of sorts – for hate. Typically, online hate spammers that get caught venting their anger on unsuspecting victims could end up with their social[...]

We've just returned from our latest #peacehack, this time in Athens in collaboration with the US Embassy in Greece, Impact Hub Athens and the Onassis Cultural Center, to use technology and creativity to help alleviate and address some of the issues around the influx of refugees into Greece, which has become the major entry point[...]

It’s 5.30am on the Sunday of #peacehackLDN, and I’m sitting in hack central under dim lights lightly observing hackers who have spent all night solving problems and coding solutions. It never ceases to amaze and inspire me how these talented people can carry on working into the small hours. I remember the same thing happened[...]

Morning’s pitches so far: App to request evidence on hate speech posting Choose your own adventure’ tool based on cartoon guidance on how to respond to hate speech with characters and scenarios to help fight hate speech Emojifies type tool to suggest changing hateful words ‘why don’t you use this other word instead?’ with positive[...]

We’re recapping on problem statements and ideas from last night. Ideas so far: App to identify and tag ppl as victims and bullies Twitter analysis apis to discover and analyse hate speech App to identify ppl with different views and invite them to safe dialogue Opinion-ometer to search and rate opinions Blocking system – to[...]

As we gear up to this Friday’s #peacehackLDN, we’re pleased to announce two food sponsors. Hippeas – Organic chickpea snacks which are high in fibre, low in calories, organic, gluten free, and a source of protein. Panacea Health and Beauty – Natural Health stores in London stocking a large range of quality skincare and cosmetics,[...]

Yesterday we kicked off our #peacehack 2016 edition as part of Big Data for peace and justice summer school, run by the University of Leiden and the Centre for Innovation. We did a “#peacehack lite” afternoon ideation session with a focus around countering online hate speech. As we had to condense a 36 hour hack[...]

We’re pleased to announce that #peacehack returns to London for the third consecutive year this October, as part of International Alert’s Talking Peace Festival The theme for this years’ #peacehackLDN will be ‘hacking hate speech’. Over two days, the hackathon will examine the real issues of Islamophobia faced by Muslims in the UK and beyond[...]

In September, International Alert ran its first international #peacehack series, with hackathons taking place in Barcelona, Beirut, Colombo, London and Washington DC. We’re pleased to announce the winners below. Barcelona Winner: Safegees Safegees is a mobile and web application that allows refugees to privately and, in a secure manner, geolocate people in their contact network. The app[...]

36 hours is a long time to stay awake – just ask Dan Marsh from International Alert. He, and some dedicated hackers did just that last weekend for the #peacehack, part of the peacebuilding charity’s month-long Talking Peace Festival. The 36-hour hackathon, which culminated on the International Day of Peace, saw six teams of developers[...]

Sri Lanka’s tech and civil society community join forces for peace Over one hundred coders came together in Colombo on 19-20 September for Code for Good Sri Lanka, co-organised by International Alert as part of our #peacehack series. The hackathon was a joint partnership between Alert and Internews, with support from SLASSCOM, internet.org by Facebook,[...]

Can an app stop a bullet? Can social media stop a war? On 20–21 September we brought together peacebuilders, coders and designers for the first ever #peacehack, a 36-hour hackathon aimed at creating and realising solutions to aid some of the most complex processes involved on the long road to peace. Here’s the story: [View[...]

By Eleanor Stewart, Digital Diplomacy, FCO As I clambered over a pile of stones atop a scrubby hillside olive grove in the searing midday Lebanese sun surveying the remains of the home of Lady Hestor Stanhope trying to recall how a degree in archaeology and passion for this kind of outdoor exploration and activity had[...]